James light?

Same here. Guess he just had enough. It's a shame because it was a site I visited daily and was an amazing resource

Maybe spreadattack can put a word in for the huey brethren and get us access?

He's being more selective. We talk a lot, but I don't have access because we are potential playoff opponents and I think he must post a lot about the defense they run. Their HC/DC are not open with their D.

We already knew this

Have to talk to James. He became a victim of his own success as he was adding so much good stuff -- including recent stuff -- he was on every coach's radar and a lot of schools, particularly in the SEC, were flipping out about stuff that wasn't even really theirs. I can also tell you from personal experience (though what I do is different than James) it's annoying to have to self-edit when writing things (will this school/coach get mad? is this across the line?), so I know he's enjoying the freedom that only comes by keeping it very selective. I also think he was going to write more about his own school's stuff so I imagine his HC/staff wanted to keep it under wraps. But again have to ask him.

I know a lot of journalists for big name publications and whenever they write things the staffs generally get to go back and tell them to take out whatever they think is competitive info, which often is stuff that you or I would say, "really?" But it's a different world with the internet now.

The irony is the NFL has gone to an interesting model where all the film is publicly available (a lot of the schools that contacted James were doing it just about all-22 film), but playbooks/handouts are harder to get because it's all done on iPads that are given out and that have remote security so they can be deleted remotely, so it's generally harder to get written playbooks/materials from the NFL but film is available, whereas I feel like it's weirdly hard to get all-22 for college but easier to get written materials.

He's very active on Twitter probably the best way to get ahold of him.

I've successfully avoided ever getting any legal letters/calls and they are generally nice, but you'd be amazed at some of the emails and private messages I get from NFL and D-1 coaches (including head coaches) out of the blue -- guys I don't even know -- about stuff I've written about or posted. Very weird world. It's the same thing for journalists/beat reporters. They hand them strict guidelines that say they can't write/tweet about formations, plays, personnel groups, etc., or else they will revoke access. It's like, everyone knows you're going to be in shotgun spread my man.

I was added to his private site, but he even took that down! He has no site available due to everyone getting butt hurt that he put out some great stuff

I forgot to point out that Smart Football (Chris) and Brophy's site are both GREAT resources; they came along first and were amazing tools for me to learn from as a young coach!